Top 100 Quotes About A Leader
#1. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
#2. Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
Mike Krzyzewski
#3. George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
Jim Edgar
#4. Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal
Howard Gardner
#5. A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.
Ray Lewis
#6. Everyone wins when a leader gets better
Bill Hybels
#7. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#8. There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
James M. Kouzes
#9. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.
Robin York
#10. Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
Andy Stanley
#11. My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.
Harry Truman
#12. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.
Hans Finzel
#13. There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
John C. Maxwell
#14. Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#16. The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
Annette Curtis Klause
#17. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.
Andy Stanley
#18. Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
James C. Humes
#19. You are a leader if your vision, mission, and actions inspire others to emulate you or follow your path.
Debasish Mridha
#20. A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
George Washington
#21. I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#22. A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#23. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes
#24. The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her.
Tim Stevens
#25. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.
Janelle Monae
#26. Adolin nodded curtly. He was still angry, Dalinar could see, but he chose to follow Dalinar - and part of following a leader was supporting him even when the battle turned against him.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even right now, in this negative period, are holding pretty strong, because people want a leader that's going to make this country great again and have a strong economy.
Jeff Sessions
#28. Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.
Gene Edwards
#29. From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.
Max De Pree
#30. As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.
Nelson Mandela
#31. And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
Mary McGrory
#32. I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I'm doing something or on a golf course, work has stopped. I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
Mike Duke
#33. I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
Renee Olstead
#34. Be an example to teach, be a role model to follow, and be a leader to emulate.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
Simon Sinek
#36. [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
T.H. White
#37. If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
Ed Stetzer
#38. The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.
N.K. Jemisin
#40. I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
Pol Pot
#41. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#42. A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
Simon Sinek
#43. At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.
Gresham Barrett
#44. Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.
Henry Louis Gates
#46. If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!
John C. Maxwell
#47. It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.
Vince Lombardi
#49. Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
David McCullough
#50. Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
Lee Iacocca
#51. Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Mary Douglas
#52. A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.
Dean Smith
#53. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn
#54. Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?
Awdhesh Singh
#55. It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.
Scott Weiss
#56. A leader is someone who has the capacity to create a compelling vision that takes people to a new place, and to translate that vision into action.
Richard Wolfe
#57. I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords
#58. As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.
Eric Greitens
#59. A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#60. The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
#61. When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
Mary J. Blige
#62. Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid
Saji Ijiyemi
#63. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.
Duop Chak Wuol
#64. A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
James Callaghan
#65. Eric once chatted with Warren Buffett about what he looks for when acquiring companies. His answer was: a leader who doesn't need him.
Eric Schmidt
#66. Power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
#67. He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader
Kirsten Beyer
#68. A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.
Frank Herbert
#69. But having a position of power and responsibility does not automatically make someone a leader.
Rita C. Manning
#70. Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.
Gary Rohrmayer
#71. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
Ken Follett
#72. To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
Max De Pree
#73. The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants
Rick Warren
#74. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
#75. A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.
Alex Ferguson
#76. A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
Mike Krzyzewski
#77. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity ... one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#78. [George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.
Bill Maher
#79. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#81. If your actions don't reflect your goals ... and your behavior doesn't reflect your company's vision ... then you're not a leader; regardless of what your title indicates.
Steve Maraboli
#82. One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.
Fredrik Backman
#83. In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
John Erskine
#84. The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.
Claire A. Murray
#85. I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything, we've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.
Mitt Romney
#86. The greatest thing you do as a leader may not
be what you do as a leader but who watches you
do what you do.
Andy Stanley
#87. Are you willing to make the difficult choices? To do what's unpopular? It's not easy, but remember this: When people are calling you out and calling you names, they're really just calling you a leader.
Darren Hardy
#88. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter
#89. If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin Powell
#90. A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be
Jack Welch
#91. To be a leader means to be able to move masses
Adolf Hitler
#92. And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader's vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
Simon Sinek
#93. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
Howard Schultz
#94. The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence
Sunday Adelaja
#95. You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust.
Debasish Mridha
#97. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.
Farshad Asl
#98. We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
George W. Bush
#99. Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
David McCullough
#100. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.
Noel Tichy
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